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41 Cards in this Set
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Hammurabi |
The first Babylonian king |
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Nebuchadnezzar 2 |
The king who ruled the richest city-state in the world |
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Sargon |
An ambitious leader who ruled the people of Akkad |
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Gilgamesh |
The main character in the epic of Gilgamesh |
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Assyrians |
The empire 1,000 years after Hammurabi's Babylon |
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Babylonians |
The empire ruled by Hammurabi |
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Sumerians |
The first people in ancient Mesopotamia |
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Chaldeans |
The people who defeated Assyria lead by Nebuchadnezzar |
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Hattites |
The people who helped the Assyrian army with weapons |
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Nabopolassar |
The father of Nebuchadnezzar who first lead the Chaldeans |
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Ashurbanipal |
The Assyrian king from 883-859 B.C. |
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Tigris River |
The river to the right of Mesopotamia |
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Euphrates River |
The river to the left of Mesopotamia |
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"Land between two rivers" |
The english definition of Mesopotamia |
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Sumer |
Cites in present day southwest of Africa, surrounded by mud flats |
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Fertile Crescent |
Curving strip of good farm land extend from the Mediterranean sea to the Persian gulf |
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Nineveh |
The capital of Assyria |
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Babylon |
Was the grandest city |
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Hanging Gradens |
One of the seven wonders of the ancient world |
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Library at Nineveh |
One of the world's first libraries built by Ashurbanipal |
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Middle east |
Mesopotamia what is known now as southern Iraq which used to be the middle east |
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Cuneiform |
The writing developed by Sumerians |
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Surplus |
An amount that is left over after a need has been met |
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Polytheism |
The belief of many gods |
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Irrigation |
The method of watering crops |
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Caravan |
A traveling group of merchants |
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astronomer |
someone who studies stars and planets |
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province |
a political district in an empire |
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ziggurat |
a tempe built to honor gods |
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geometry |
the technology of mathmatics |
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code |
a set of official laws |
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scribe |
a person who copies or writes documents; often a record keeper |
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city state |
a city that governs itself and its surrounding territories |
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empire |
a large territory or group of territories governed by 1 ruler |
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silt |
fine particles of fertile soil |
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artisan |
people who created goods like pottery, cloth and baskets |
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merchant |
someone who sells something |
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clay tablet |
the way the Sumerians kept records of their life and history |
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division of labor |
people in the Sumer were divided into three social classes |
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Principle of Hammurabi's code |
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth |
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What features made the Summerian's settle and develop mesopotamia |
Flat land, two rivers that flooded, fertile soil, warm weather, central location |
